Of course, they are organized alphabetically.
I used a simple word document. I added a table with four columns and four rows for each page. Then I simply added the photograph, the name of the set, the description and then any themes which the set could be used with.
So, without further ado, here's what I found in that old grey file beast:
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Name/Title
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Photo
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Description
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Themes
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ABC’s
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Not made yet!
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Alphabet
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APPLE Bingo
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For this song: “I know a fruit
that grows on trees and Apples is its name-oh! A-P-P-L-E, A-P-P-L-E, A-P-P-L-E, and Apple
is its name-oh!
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Apples, letters (alphabet)
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The Farmer’s Wife
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For Use with telling the story by Indries Shah. “Once upon a time there was a farmer’s
wife…”
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Apples
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The Apple Tree
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For use with the song: “Way up
high in the apple tree, some little apples smiled at me. I shook that tree as hard as I could, down
came the apples, umm, mm, good!” then:
angry, cried, whispered, yawned.
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Apples, emotions
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Apple Basket
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“The first apple in the basket was bright and shiny red…Oh dear! Oh me!
Oh my! This basket looks like
pastry! I think we’re in a pie!”
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Apples, food,
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Barnyard Banter
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For use with the book by Denise Fleming
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Animals, farm
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BINGO
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For use with the song:
Bingo
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Dogs, letters, farms
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
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Need photo
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For use with the book
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Colors, Animals
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One Little Blue bird
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One little blue bird up and up he flew. Along came another one and that makes two…
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Counting, birds
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In My Nest
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Use with the text from the board book: in my nest by Sara Gillingham
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Birds, group participation, homes
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Birds
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“Two little dickey birds…one named Jack, one named Jill…” (Cloud, soft, loud) (Sky, Low, and high)
Finger play
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Birds
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Black Birds baked in a pie
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For use with the Nursery Rhyme
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Birds, food?
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Bug
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Pull Bug parts out of your story time apron and make…a bug!
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Bugs
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BUGS
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For use with the book Bustle in the Bushes
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Bugs
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Bunnies
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Fingerpuppets: “Five little
rabbits sitting by the door. One
hopped away and then there were…four!
Etc”
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Rabbits
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CATS
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To pull out of the apron
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CATS
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Three Little Kittens
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Finger puppets to use with the Nursery Rhyme and a bigger hand puppet
as the mother
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Cats, conditional love
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Little Cat, duck, mouse, pig
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For use with the song which teaches sign language
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Cat, Mouse, Duck, Pig…
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Dinosaurs
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For apron use and also for Five Little Dinosaurs Jumping on the Bed
song
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Dinosaurs
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Dogs
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Apron usage
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Dogs
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Dog’s Colorful Day
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To tell the story by Emma Dodd
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Dogs, colors
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This Old Man
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To tell the story/song
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Counting, dogs, rhyming
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Little White Duck
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To tell the story by Whipple
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Ducks, ponds, frogs, bugs, snakes,
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Animals in Winter
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Borrowed the frog and snake from “Little White Duck” and the bird
from “Birds”
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Snow, Winter, Animals, Hibernation
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Hibernation
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For use with the song:
“Hibernation, time for Hibernation, Hibernation, Time to go to sleep!”
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Hibernation, animals in winter…
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Deep Blue Sea
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To tell the story from the book by Woods
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+Colors, Ocean,
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Flowers
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For use with the rhyme: Five
little Flowers
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Flowers, spring, gardens
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Pie
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For use with the rhyme: “One
whole pie set by the door, Cut into pieces:
Let’s count four! Four pieces
of pie, all for me! I ate one piece
and then there were three!...”
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Food, Thanksgiving, fractions…counting
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Five Brown Buns
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Use with the Song: “Five brown
Buns”
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Food, counting,
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Flip-Flap Jack
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Song: There was a man made of
food…
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Food,
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Five Green and Speckled Frogs
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Use with the song
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Frogs, ponds, counting
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Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Use to tell the story
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Goats,
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It looked like Spilt Milk
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Use to tell the story
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Shapes, clouds,
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Lazy Jack
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Use to tell the tale
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Days of the week…
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Jo MacDonald’s Garden
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Use to tell the story
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Gardens
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Five little Mice
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Use with a cat puppet to tell the rhyme: “Five little mice came out to play,
gathering crumbs along the way…”
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Mice, Cats
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Hide and Seek Mice
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Can you find me? Where can I
be? rhyme
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Mice. Hiding.
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Monsters
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For use in Apron or Five little Monsters jumping on the bed…
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Monsters, Halloween
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Go Away, Big, Green, Scary Monster!
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Use to tell the story
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Monsters
Halloween
feelings
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The Squeaky Door
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Use to tell the story by Margaret Read MacDonald
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Halloween, monsters
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Five Little Hoot Owls
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Use with the rhyme:
“Five Hoot Owls sitting in a tree, ONE Flew away and then there were….”
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Birds, owls,
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Five Little Penguins
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Penguins Finger Puppets. Use
with “Five Perky Penguins standing on
the shore…” or song “Did you ever see a Penguin”
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Penguins, birds, ice,
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Pippa’s Penguins
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Use to tell the story
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Penguins
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Pirates
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Use to sing the song, “This old pirate has a hat..”
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Pirates
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Pumpkins
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Apron use,
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Pumpkins, fall
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Jack ‘o’ Lanterns
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Sing” “If you’re happy and you
know it…”
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Pumpkins, fall, feelings
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The Little Old Lady Who wasn’t Afraid of anything
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Use to tell the story
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Halloween, Pumpkins, feelings
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Rainbow
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Song: “Make a Rainbow” to the
tune of Skip to my Lou
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Shapes, Colors,
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Shape houses
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Use with the Rhyme: “Some
houses are made of wood and some of clay but let’s make a house just of
shapes today…”
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Shapes
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A Pizza is a Triangle
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Lay down the pieces and say, this is a triangle, etc until you get to
the next shape and the children will correct you..
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Shapes
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Shapes
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Use with the song:
Who has a shape today?
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Shapes, colors
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Five Little Rockets
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Use with Rhyme: “Four little Rockets…”
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Space, Things that go
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Eight Spinning Planets
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Tell the story of Eight Spinning Planets
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Space
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Turkey
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Use with song: Have you ever
seen a turkey? (to the tune of Have
you ever seen a lassie?)
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Turkeys, colors, Thanksgiving
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Thanks a Lot
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Use with the song by Raffi
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Thanksgiving
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Zoo Animals
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Use with: My Name is Lou. I work at the Zoo…
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Zoo or jungle animals
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Zoo Animals
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These are the habitats that you hide the zoo animals behind…also use
the snake from Little White Duck
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Zoo Animals
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Fall Leaves
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Use to tell the story of Mouse’s first fall or just for leaves in
apron
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Fall, leaves
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